Cooking 101: Before making a recipe read it from beginning to end to make sure that you have all the ingredients. I know this, yet inevitably I end up floundering around my kitchen searching for at least one ingredient that I forgot.

Fortunately, most dinner recipes are templates that can be adjusted based on your preferences and ingrediets at hand.

Some subsitutions are pretty straight-forward... An apple for a pear, cauliflower for broccoli, zucchini for eggplant, asparagus for string beans. But, other simple swaps might be less familiar.

Here's a list of ingredients that can easily be substituted for one another in a recipe. Assume equal amounts unless otherwise noted.